Dictionary entry

Inviolate

Webster's Dictionary 1913

{ In‐vi″o‐late (?), In‐vi″o‐la′ted (?), } a. [L. inviolatus. See In- not, and Violate.]

1. Not violated; uninjured; unhurt; unbroken.

His fortune of arms was still inviolate. Bacon.

2. Not corrupted, defiled, or profaned; chaste; pure. “Inviolate truth.” Denham.

There chaste Alceste lives inviolate. Spenser.